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ἄξυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄξυλος ἄξυλη ἄξυλον

Structure: ἀξυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cu/lon

Sense

  1. with no timber, timberless, a coppice, brushwood, a wood from which no timber has been cut, thick
  2. without wood

Examples

  • ἡ πλείστη δὲ πεδιὰσ οὖσα καὶ ἄξυλοσ πολλαῖσ κώμαισ διείληπται. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 81 8:2)
  • ὑπὲρ δὲ τῆσ ὀφρύησ τὸ πρὸσ νότου καὶ ἐσ μεσόγαιαν τῆσ Λιβύησ ἔρημοσ καὶ ἄνυδροσ καὶ ἄθηροσ καὶ ἄνομβροσ καὶ ἄξυλοσ ἐστὶ ἡ χώρη, καὶ ἰκμάδοσ ἐστὶ ἐν αὐτῇ οὐδέν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 185 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. without wood

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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